Regional Property Manager

Our Business

Selwood is the leading pump rental solutions company in the UK. We have an outstanding reputation for exceptional customer service backed by one of the largest fleets of quality pump products. Each customer and each project is unique and our deep technical knowledge means we are proud to deliver a bespoke and genuine 24/7, 365 days-a-year service. With an unrivalled depth of technical pumping expertise; a pedigree spanning seven decades and employing a wide variety of skilled staff throughout our nationwide network of branches, our ever-growing business is one of the largest privately owned companies serving the Water, Environmental and Construction industries. This is an exciting time to join Selwood as we drive our business forward and build on a foundation of over 70 years’ success within our industry. We are committed to ensuring our staff have the right skills, knowledge & experience to deliver to our customers, as well as creating career paths to help develop, retain, and motivate them.

About The Role

Main Responsibilities

• As a Regional Property Manager, you will be responsible for leading the day-to-day property operation within your designated region, overseeing non-routine compliance and planned maintenance activities, and delivering property upgrade and replacement projects.
• You will be the main point of contact for regional property-related issues and will coordinate with Property Helpdesk, Branch Teams, and Supply Chain, to ensure safe delivery of site activities, audits, and inspections.
• Success in this role will require strong property and project management experience, communication skills, and a customer-centric mindset.
• Actively promote a positive safety culture in line with our Think Safe, Work Safe, Home Safe behaviours, and ensure relevant legislation requirements, and group policies are achieved daily across our properties.
• Support with ongoing management of leases, rent reviews, rent payments and rates.
• On site management of contractors and supply partners, ensuring works/documentation are planned and delivered safely, in line with relevant policies and procedures.
• Serve as the first point of contact for all property-related enquiries as they arise, resolving within areas of authority, or escalating accordingly.
• Support with the development and maintenance of local operating procedures and planned preventative maintenance workflow (PPMs), in line with agreed templates, workflow timescales and review periods.
• Build and maintain good working relationships with external contractors and supply partners, ensuring safety, quality of delivery and value for each activity.
• Maintain up to date property asset information - including drawings and plans, documents, maintenance, condition information and service records – checking and inspecting site records periodically, to ensure compliance.
• Lead and participate in scheduled internal and external property related audits, ensuring accurate property documentation is available in site logbooks and coordinating with the Property Helpdesk.
• Support with maintaining the supply chain matrix and resource list for key compliance areas, auditing and inspecting work and providing performance information for, and leading/attending contract review meetings as needed.
• Lead on regional management of property budgets annually, overseeing daily and monthly budgetary activities, ensuring budget expenditure is in line with the agreed plan and financial process is followed for overspends.
• Ensure daily adherence to group/property management procedures and local operating procedures, resolving and escalating non-conformances as they arise.
• Provide accurate, compliance and performance information and reporting in line with reporting timelines.
• Conduct regular inspections to monitor scheduled works and identify maintenance and repair needs with the Branch Teams and raise as reactive works via the Helpdesk.
• Contribute to business risk identification and mitigation, ensuring mitigation measures are captured and implemented appropriately, raising and managing risk via our Assure system, identifying and escalating trends where appropriate.
• Ensure suitable risk-based site emergency procedures are developed and tested in support of the Branch Teams, ensuring compliance with relevant property procedures and processes.
• Actively contribute to the creation and maintenance of asset/fabric maintenance and replacement strategies for all building assets, ensuring efficiency and value for money in line with core business requirements.
• Undertake all assigned asset upgrade/replacement projects in line with the gated procedure, ensuring projects are delivered safely, accurately, on time and on budget, following procedure for any non-conformance.
• Evaluate and manage direct report performance, conduct and capabilities, set SMART objectives and take corrective action as necessary to ensure team members maintain acceptable standards.
• Monitor changes, innovations and new technologies within the industry and evaluate the value of their application. Monitor and respond to legislative and industry best practice developments.
• Support with the delivery of environment and sustainability activities, assisting with the monitoring of utility usage and delivery of the ESG targets, objectives and required outputs of our Environmental Management System (EMS).

Qualifications & Experience

• Current IWFM membership (at member grade or higher), with relevant qualification undertaken.
• Achieved or prepared to work towards NEBOSH qualification (General Certificate).
• Relevant property/facilities/building and construction/maintenance project management experience.
• Demonstrable technical understanding of relevant mechanical/electrical/fabric systems.
• Relevant financial experience in overseeing budgets and project finances.
• Good communication skills - able to influence within and beyond own teams and with customers.
• Able to evidence an effective positive safety culture with ability to challenge and resolve unsafe acts and conditions on site.
• Strong relationship building abilities, with demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining good working relationships with key contractors, framework providers or supply partners.
• Team leadership and development skills.
• Relevant experience of computer aided facilities management (CAFM) systems, or similar.
• Proven experience in commitment-based management.
• Strong written communication skills with ability to write, modify and review documents and management reports.
• Customer focused with ability to manage and resolve difficult situations.
• Ability to balance multiple workstreams and manage concurrent tasks.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability and willingness to travel throughout the region, with full UK driving license.
• Willingness and aptitude to contribute to continuous improvement.
• Demonstrable experience of authoring procedures and processes and maintaining compliant records would be advantageous.

What we can offer you

• We understand balancing work and life commitments isn’t always easy, that’s why we’ve designed our benefits package to support you in all areas of life.
• Competitive salary.
• Company car, or car allowance.
• Eligible for company bonus scheme (annual and quarterly payments).
• Medicash Scheme – medical expenses scheme (access to 24-hour online GP services, discounted gym memberships).
• Pension scheme with contribution based on total earnings not just salary.
• 24 days holiday + 8 Bank Holidays.
• Increasing annual leave entitlement with long service.
• 3x your annual salary life insurance (DIS).
• Support for development and training.
• Employee assistance programme (EAP) & access to Mental Health first aiders.
• Employee discount scheme (discounts/vouchers for supermarkets, high street shops, holidays and more).
• Employee referral scheme.

This role is not open to Agencies - Please no calls or emails - Thank you.

EDI Statement

Workdry International Ltd is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We value transparency, respecting others and understanding differences. We give full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. As part of your recruitment journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments.